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Hannah Graham

Little-known condition which can strike 'overnight' left active Wallsend 25-year-old in a care home

Employed as a carer, working out in the gym and going out with her friends, Abbie Potts lived like any 24-year-old with the rest of her life ahead of her.

Until a sudden attack of a little-understood condition changed everything.

Now, at 25, Abbie lives in a care home, paralysed from the waist down, reliant on a wheelchair and forced to ask for help for her most basic needs.

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